Category Archives: State News
Governor Whitmer, MDHHS encourage spring break travelers to get tested for COVID-19
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) are urging Michiganders to get tested for COVID-19 upon returning from Spring Break i...
Apr 05, 2021 Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer at a COVID-19 update press conference on Nov. 19, 2020. Courtesy, State of Michigan
AG Nessel charges Flint man for child sexually abusive materials
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel announced today that a Flint man was charged and arrested on multiple felonies for the possession and distribution of Child Sexually A...
Apr 05, 2021 Best Law
Average gas price in Michigan reaches two year high during the past week
DEARBORN, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The average price for gas in Michigan jumped to a two-year high when it reached $2.85 per gallon last Thursday. Since then, there has been a slight drop, but drivers in th...
Apr 05, 2021 Robert Geiger / CC
Michigan's strong apple crop helping boost the hard cider industry
BENTON HARBOR, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Michigan's hard cider industry is growing, with many of the apples used coming from right here in southwest Michigan. "Hard cider is where craft beer was a decade bac...
Apr 05, 2021 Jan Smith / CC
COVID-19 cases continue accelerating in Michigan, health experts say "it's just the beginning"
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Health experts in Michigan are calling Saturday's jump in COVID-19 cases a wake-up call, as over 8,400 new cases were reported in the state. A leading epidemiologist says t...
Apr 05, 2021 EpicTop10.com / CC
Governor Whitmer and MDHHS urging COVID-19 testing for spring break travelers
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services are urging Michiganders to get tested for COVID-19 upon returning from Spring Break trave...
Apr 04, 2021
U of M Board of Regents condemns Weiser's words
ANN ARBOR, MI (WHTC-AM/FM) -- The University of Michigan's board of regents held a special meeting Friday morning and voted to condemn the words of a fellow regent, Ron Weiser. They pressed him to res...
Apr 02, 2021 University of Michigan logo (courtesy of U of M)
Remembering the deadly 1956 Hudsonville tornado
HOLLAND (WHTC-AM/FM) -- Today marks 65 years since the start of a two-day tornado outbreak that caused the deaths of 17 Michigan residents, 13 in Hudsonville, and hundreds of injuries. The tornado cut...
Apr 02, 2021 National Weather Service's safe-place selfie graphic. Courtesy, NWS
March 2021 in Michigan was much warmer, sunnier and drier than normal
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- The month of March in Michigan was one of the warmest, sunniest and driest on record. You could remember March 2021 for its higher than average number of sunny days or...
Apr 02, 2021 Matt R
'10 digit dialing' to begin for telephone calls in four Michigan area codes
LANSING, MI (WKZO AM/FM) -- Several areas of Michigan will be seeing a change in how they make telephone calls. It affects four area codes, where residents will have soon have to use 10-digit dialing ...
Apr 02, 2021 Leonid Mamchenkov / CC
